The 10 Best Teaching Hard History Podcast Episodes
1) Wrap Up: Teaching the Connections – w/ Bethany Jay
The systems that enabled and perpetuated African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the U.S. have much in common, and their histories tell us a great deal about the present. Professors Bethany ...Show More
2) Sample Lessons – w/ Jordan Lanfair and Tamara Spears
Using the present to explore the past. Tamara Spears and Jordan Lanfair suggest a Social Studies unit about Resistance & Kanye West, and a set of English Language Arts lessons examining holidays—from ...Show More
3) Wrap up: Questions from the Classroom – w/ Bethany Jay
Historian Bethany Jay returns – answering questions from educators across the country. Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries and the co-editor of Understanding and Teaching American Slavery confront teacher anxie...Show More
4) The Hidden History of American Slavery – w/ Maureen Costello, Eduardo Díaz and Renée Gokey
American slavery shaped our modern world and most certainly the foundation and development of what is now the United States. The Smithsonian’s Eduardo Díaz and Renée Gokey discuss the importance of le...Show More
5) Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2 – w/ Christina Snyder
Understanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. It spread across the entire continent and affected millions of people of different backgrounds....Show More
6) Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1 – w/ Christina Snyder
Millions of Indigenous people lived in North America before European colonial powers invaded. Along with an insatiable desire for free labor, Europeans brought systems of slavery that significantly di...Show More
7) Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 2 – w/ Debbie Reese
Each autumn, Thanksgiving brings a disturbing amount of inaccurate information and troubling myths into classrooms across the United States. Most students don’t learn much about the history of Native ...Show More
8) The Other Slavery – w/ Andrés Reséndez
A hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in “The New World.” And for the next 400 years, millio...Show More
9) Silver, Resistance and the Evolution of Slavery in the West – w/ Andrés Reséndez
Throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the forced labor and bondage of Indigenous peoples was integral to the economic and political history of what became the Southwestern United States. Histo...Show More
Silver, Resistance and the Evolution of Slavery in the West – w/ Andrés Reséndez
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10) Mid-season Recap: Key Lessons on Indigenous Enslavement
Educators can no longer ignore our country’s history of Indigenous enslavement. Our students need a fuller understanding of the pivotal history of slavery to comprehend the present and develop a visio...Show More